Big tree branches swaying in the wind. Trash bins toppling over. Whirlwinds of leaves and pollen blowing through the air. All ...

Researchers also analyzed wind trajectories, finding a sustained directional pattern from West Africa which suggested that the butterflies ... or Trade Winds (blowing from east to west) carry ...

The butterflies likely made the 2,600-mile trek across the Atlantic from West Africa with help from favorable wind conditions, the researchers report Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.

A Painted Lady butterfly on a tridax daisy in Ivory ... Just last year, researchers discovered that a flock of Painted Ladies rode the wind over the Atlantic Ocean from West Africa to the northern ...